Hydrostatic weighing
Technique for measuring the density of a living person's body / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hydrostatic weighing, also referred to as underwater weighing, hydrostatic body composition analysis and hydrodensitometry, is a technique for measuring the density of a living person's body. It is a direct application of Archimedes' principle, that an object displaces its own volume of water.